Chapter 265: National Contradictions

The Jin military system was more chaotic than that of the Song Dynasty, and the early implementation was the Mengke security system, and then the Bo Ji Lie system was implemented. Its army is named after the twenty-eight constellations of Jiuyao. The big official, that is, the chief general of the first army, is also called the intelligent version of Bo Jilie, and the following is still a small official, called Bo Jilie. Next is the head of the 10,000 households. The discipline is very strict, if Commander Wu dies in battle, the four people under his command will die if they do not make achievements. He died in battle, and the two captains died together. The confusion lies in the fact that the Alphabet is a unit, not an organization. There were 300 people, and one of them was very vigorous. It is also a very strong version of 20,000 people. Many small tribes have their own version of the Bo Jilie, that is, Mengke'an. There are also those that everyone has set up together. In this way, many of the troops are based on clan formations.

For example, when people like Jin Si arrived in the Jurchen land, if they were not with the tribe, they would be regarded as signing the army during the war, and the conscripted version of the army would be forcibly recruited into the army. The Jurchen system is a system that does not doubt the Jurchens, as long as you are a Jurchen, you can and must enter the battlefield. Although Xue Shan is talented and learned, it has been difficult to get promoted because he is not a Jurchen. Of course, there are also Khitan troops, but the officers are all Jurchens, and the military law is only stricter than that of the Jurchen troops.

This operation was a systematic operation, and it also demonstrated Xue's relatively high level of strategic command. Jin Si will take half of his men through Changbai Mountain, and then leave in the waters near the province of Bandin on a receiving warship. Jin Si's most trusted cronies led the other half of the people to Liaoyang Mansion, and finally evacuated from the sea of Suzhou. The bounty will be divided equally among thousands of people, provided that you can come back alive, of course. Zhang Jun completely agreed with the plan after a glance, and Zhang Jun seemed to think that after these thousand people went into the riot, whether they could succeed or not, it would cause distrust and chaos within the Jurchens.

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The war that had been brewing for a long time finally broke out in full force, and the Liao people did not expect that the first threatening attack of the Song people would be to kill Linhuang Mansion directly with the help of the naval army. Song Jiang used Yang Mo's technology to create a large number of vehicles and ships. You must know that even the inland warships of the official army in the Song Dynasty are not of the same grade as Yang Mo's vehicles and ships. According to records, Yang Mo used two vehicles and ships to scatter more than 100 official ships. This shows the power of the car and the ship. The Song River completely dominated the battlefield initiative of the four rivers of Dihe, Huanghe, Tuhe, and Liaohe. This made the Liao army frightened three times a day, in order to prevent the Song Dynasty from taking advantage of the waterway to bloom on all sides, sneak attack on the back road grain and grass, except for sinking ships in the river to block the river, Jinzhou's army all retreated. However, the court and the army had different views on the retreat to the Dading Mansion garrison Linhuang, or the retreat to the Tongzhou garrison and the retreat to the back road of Tokyo.

At the same time that the Song army easily occupied Jinzhou, Ou Ping's wedding was also officially held. The wedding was held in Oufu, and after Oufu, it was Ou Pingfu. Ouyang will go to live in a villa by the river in Baiyun District. Although Ou Ping is very persistent, Ouyang understands very well what husband and wife life is. Ou Ping has helped himself live for more than 20 years, and he should also give him some ***. According to what Ouyang said, Ou Ping is still responsible for taking care of some personal contacts. But no longer in charge of the stewardship position.

So who cares about Ouyang's lock things, such as receiving letters and rewards, such as daily expenses, hiring maids, etc.? Ouyang originally planned to ignore it and live a life of solitude. But then Jin Niang came to Yangping from the Kingdom of Jin. Of course, Ouyang would not see her go to the Qinglou to make a living, so he left her to be a housekeeper in his villa. Jin Niang took the token worth 200,000 yuan, as well as thousands of silver tickets, it was really half a ring, she really didn't expect Ouyang to be so generous.

Ouyang saw that expression and explained: "Jin Niang, in fact, the main expenses of the family in the future will be taken from you." You just learn from Ouping, you take your own salary, and you can buy whatever you need. Those who reward errands and buy high-quality tea to receive guests all need money. I'm not here, you need money to arrange for guests to stay outside and so on, so it's important not to lose face too much. ”

Jin Niang thought about it and asked: "What do you mean not to lose face too much......"

"Well...... For example, someone from the Chamber of Commerce came to visit, but I was not there. You will help me to eat with them. It doesn't matter what you eat, the most important thing is that it is expensive, and a table cannot be missing a hundred times. Ouyang said: "Jin Niang, you are very suitable, you have all kinds of people, this housekeeper is not only to manage a family, but also to help me socialize." You can ride horses again, and you often have to go to Beijing and Shouzhou, so I'm worried that you won't be able to stand it. ”

Jin Niang smiled suddenly: "Is that what does it mean to be the personal assistant hired by Su Da's shopkeeper?" ”

"yes, that's what it means." Ouyang Dao: "There are some lists of officials with good relationships here. For example, when Bailian's child is one year old, you also have to help me send a red envelope, and you can go to the table on my behalf when you are free. There is also the sixtieth birthday of Shouzhou Zhizhou's father next month, you have to help me pack a lot of congratulatory gifts, you can attend when you have time, know more people, and if you don't have enough money, just tell me, I'm not here, you can go to Ou Ping. ”

Jin Niang smiled bitterly: "My lord, I am a woman, and I used to be the ...... of that identity"

"Whelan wasn't the same before." Ouyang said: "It's all helpless, it's not a big deal." Besides, you are going on my behalf, and the people you socialize with are all people who can be people, and no one dares to ridicule you. Ouyang also knew that there must have been a bit of misunderstanding and trouble at the beginning, but there was really no one more suitable than Jin Niang at the moment. There are many people who can ride horses and can read. But there are very few people who can socialize, and the most important thing is that they can be trusted. Ouyang admires Jin Niang very much, she can desperately defend Hu Wansan, and she also has affection for Jin Er. And the risk of returning to the Jurchen to pay tribute to her father shows that this woman's moral character is relatively high. Having said that, it seems that from ancient times to the present, the character and reputation of prostitutes are relatively high. A website has a ****** of professional integrity, with prostitutes ranking in the top three and civil servants ranking in the bottom three. It cannot but be said to be a kind of irony.

Jin Niang has nowhere to go, her home is broken, and it is impossible to stay in Jin Guo. And the Song State could only engage in the prostitution industry again. It is rare that Ouyang is enthusiastic to pull her into the upper class society, so she naturally will not be so ignorant. He nodded and said, "Then I'll try." ”

After less than half a month, Ouyang found out that Ou Ping should have been married a long time ago. Jin Niang's carefulness is really not comparable to Ou Ping. Ouyang slept late, and there would always be a late night supper. To go out, the whole set of shoes and clothes has been figured out. Attentive and conscientious...... These treatments, which only Liang Hongyu had at the time, are now available. Ouyang treats Jin Niang very politely and politely, avoiding irresponsible remarks. Of course, some people have already made irresponsible remarks, but Ouyang and Jin Niang are both self-purifying people, and they don't like to argue with people in the market.

One morning, Ouyang had breakfast and read the newspaper, Jin Niang rarely shared the table with Ouyang, and she was reading a few invitations outside the door. Ouyang: "Jin Niang, sit together today." ”

Jin Niang answered, sat in front of Ouyang, glanced at the newspaper in Ouyang's hand and asked, "Is there something wrong with my lord?" ”

"I'm fine, I'm just wondering why you don't care at all about the Jurchen and Khitan wars in the streets and alleys, plus teahouses, newspapers, and banquets?"

"This ......" Jin Niang is a little distracted.

Ouyang said: "Say it directly." ”

"Well, actually, I'm worried that I'm too concerned about these things, and I'm afraid that people will think too much. After all, I am a Jurchen, and there have been Jurchen assassinations and Jurchen framing on the side of adults. Jin Niang said: "It's also to avoid suspicion." ”

"I remember that your ancestral home is in the Central Plains, and your father or grandfather is a famous Jurchen doctor who fled to the Central Plains." Ouyang picked up the newspaper and said, "At the banquet and chatting, you always have to say something big." You can take a look, Eh...... The Jurchens are already in chaos. Zong Han of Huanglong Mansion personally took the headquarters to the area of Changbai Mountain to sort out the bullet pressure, but the effect was not good. ”

Jin Niang nodded and took the newspaper, which said that at least a dozen Jurchen chieftains had been kidnapped and assassinated, and some of the troops had even been disbanded by the chiefs. And some troops fought for the position of chieftain, and several sons led their cronies to start killing each other. Since the Jurchens all revered the brave, chaos was indispensable. The newspaper also said that due to the surrender of one of the Jurchens, the Hebei military route took the three counties in the south of Changbai Mountain, occupying strategic points in the south and north. Faced with such a chaotic situation, the Jin Dynasty court immediately appointed Wanyan Zongbi as the deputy marshal again.

Although Wanyan Zongbi is on par with Zong Han in terms of military talent, he has served in this area for a long time and knows all kinds of conditions such as terrain and customs. Moreover, his own soldiers were all promoted by the tribesmen here, and under his leadership, a series of actions such as organizing the team and appointing chiefs quickly stabilized the chaotic southern Jurchen. and defeated the advance of the Song Forbidden Army in a sneak attack, stifling the advance of the Song Forbidden Army.

"Your Excellency!" Li Si knocked a few times outside the door, turned to the house and said, "Tokyo came to the official document, and Yan Lan ran away after speaking." ”

"It doesn't seem to matter if this person runs or not." Ouyang said: "You talk to the yamen, you can hang the portrait and be wanted." Wan Yanlan is no longer a threat to Song.

"Yes, Kumon reminds you to be careful." Li Sidao: "I have ordered someone to increase the post. ”

"It's fine. She may not have come to trouble me. ”

"Yes!" Li Si clenched his fists and left.

Li Sicai left, and the official on duty outside the door came to report: "My lord, Shopkeeper Su is here." ”

"Please!" Ouyang said: "Jin Niang, help me watch tea in the living room." ”

"Yes!"

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After politely looking at the tea on both sides, Ouyang asked, "Su Qian, why are you here?" "Su Qian is now a court official, and he will definitely not come if he has nothing to do.

"Discuss something with an adult." The reason for Su Qianlai was because many members of the Chamber of Commerce jointly wrote to him, asking him to resolve the conflict between the merchant and Tubo and Dali. In fact, this contradiction also existed in Western Xia. That is, in order to win over ethnic minorities, the imperial court gave a relatively preferential policy to ethnic minorities. Before Zhao Yu, the imperial court implemented such policies, such as buying horses at high prices and selling grain at low prices. If it is not a crime and a great evil, the Song government generally gives light sentences.

This is a common disease, the Central Plains has always been very generous to the border countries such as ***, ***, Jiaozhi, etc., of course, it is good in ancient times, look at modern times, although the constitution says that all kinds of rights and so on are equal, but according to the policy, the Han people are a third-class nation, and there is considerable unfairness, especially for the Han people living in the autonomous region.

Due to the commercial development of the Great Song Dynasty, the trade with Dali and Tubo deepened, and the same was true for the original Western Xia tribes. Due to the hard policies and ill-conceived policies of the imperial court and the rise in domestic prices in the Song Dynasty, merchants were unable to profit from exports and imports, resulting in a complete halt in border trade. Border trade is generally barter, and at most horses are exchanged for tea. Now the Song Dynasty has his own horse farm, and the price of horses is inferior. Everyone's standard of living is high, and the price of tea is high. It is no longer possible to exchange the same amount of tea leaves for horses.

The local government was very dissatisfied, you know, it has always been Suilai's policy to encircle ethnic minorities. Merchants involved in the border trade were forced to reopen trade. I was patient before, but after the war began, the prices in the Song Dynasty rose again, and the transportation cost increased, so the merchants stopped doing it, and no one was willing to post money. As a result, under the instigation of a businessman, border merchants collectively went on strike, demanding that ethnic minorities buy and sell according to prices and achieve fair trading, thus triggering a business tide. Eventually, the merchant was arrested. It was very common for the government to guide prices in the Song Dynasty, and even in the Song Dynasty, there was an official system for some products.

In fact, there are also advantages of the minority policy, and history records that the Tibetans in the northwest region were willing to accept the rule of the Song Dynasty through tea and horse exchanges, and the border areas were relatively peaceful, and jointly resisted the attack of the Western Xia. The Western Xia confronted the Song Dynasty, and there was no source of tea, which also caused dissatisfaction among the people, forcing them to negotiate peace with the Song Dynasty and buy tea. The Song government often adopted preferential economic policies in order to ensure the stability of its border areas and achieve the goal of "guarding the interior."

But this is the benefit of the government, not the benefit of the people, and even less the benefit of businessmen. The Chamber of Commerce asked Su Qian to make a proposal at the court meeting to treat all nationalities equally in business. Merchants could accept the imperial court's preferential policies, but the imperial court must also allow merchants not to do business.

Ouyang shook his head after hearing this: "During the period of Emperor Shenzong, the Qingtang Qiang people in Lizhou gathered people to disturb the border because the Song Dynasty once interrupted the tea and horse trade, attacked the Song Dynasty, seized the population, coerced and demanded the resumption of the mutual market, and finally the court compromised. If the imperial court subsidizes, there must be businessmen who take advantage of the loopholes to make a lot of money from the imperial court subsidies. This problem is difficult to solve. "There would not have been such a problem in history, because the Song Dynasty has never had a suitable horse breeding land, and there is a great demand for horses, but tea cultivation fields are everywhere. But now, on the other hand, the Song Dynasty has a large area of horse farmland, and natural contradictions have emerged.

Su Qian nodded: "Actually, I also know that the border troops are at war now." However, there is great dissatisfaction with this policy within the Chamber of Commerce. Besides, if the current stalemate continues, the border people are not satisfied, and the businessmen are still in prison, so they always need a solution. ”

"There are three of them." Ouyang Dao: "The introverted identity of the first national culture, and the second, the relatively fixed gathering territory. Third, the elite of the team focusing on ethnic affairs. The Jurchens met these three conditions, so they united to form a regime. ”

Ouyang is talking about the very famous Cold War theory, this is a book, introducing the different policies of the United States and the Soviet Union, and finally the Soviet Union was defeated, all nationalities demanded ***, and Russia finally became the main force against the existence of the Soviet Union. The three principles of the Soviet Union were all committed, the replacement of civic schools with ethnic schools, the establishment of autonomous regions of ethnic minorities, the exclusion of foreigners (which can be felt by frequent tourist friends), the ideological error of cultivating a small number of elites, they often said that the XX ethnic group was deputy, not citizen representatives, and the government created the isolation of several groups.

Su Qian thought for a while: "Actually, the surroundings of the Central Plains are like this, let's just say that Tubo, if an elite team that meets the third condition of the adult appears, it will also threaten the power of my Central Plains." ”

"Yes, so whether you give benefits to the border clan or not is not the main reason for the border chaos." After the founding of the People's Republic of China, two large-scale ethnic identifications were carried out, and the ethnic minorities that had been integrated were identified and renamed as minorities. Ouyang Dao: "You can explain such a situation, the requirement is equality." We respect equality, and foreign trade must be equal. We don't ride on the heads of other peoples, but we don't want to see other nations ride on our heads. trade***, the government is not allowed to participate in pricing. ”

Su Qian hesitated for a long time and said, "My lord, you may be refuted." ”

"Of course it will be refuted." Ouyang sighed: "But it won't be punished." I believe that the emperor will at least release those merchants. Consider your opinion carefully. Then the imperial court subsidy is still a means, at least to ensure that the border merchants have a slight surplus. ”

"What good advice do you have?"

"Yes!" Ouyang touched his chin for a while and said, "You can suggest a few." First, the surplus labor of the border tribes was allowed to work in the Great Song Dynasty. Second, give the chiefs of the border tribes some official positions. Third, control a certain profit margin, supervised by the imperial court, and set by the chamber of commerce. Fourth, the policy of opening up to lure other ethnic groups into Han. "The last point is not an invention by Ouyang, but a policy that has always existed in ancient times. Ouyang knows that the ethnic issue has always been a very complicated and troublesome matter, and even in modern society, among multi-ethnic countries, only the United States has relatively good adjustment and governance. Like black people, the United States does not discriminate, does not take care of, does not develop their black culture, and does not interfere with their own development. There is no division of aggregation areas, and no forced separation of aggregation areas. The elite is cultivated to serve the United States, not to train blacks specifically to run blacks. Although there are still incidents of racial discrimination, those who understand know that it is caused by some low-quality people, and it has nothing to do with race.

"Okay, I'll go back to Beijing."

Su Qian hurriedly said goodbye, and Jin Niang said on the side: "My lord, don't say that I am too talkative." In the Song Dynasty, the Jurchens did not enjoy any equal treatment. Jin Niang immediately said the two-sided nature of Ouyang's affairs.

"Jin Niang, if you let them enjoy the treatment now, then Song Shang will not agree. Not only did the Song merchants not agree, but also those landlords. And if they don't sacrifice the same treatment, why should others hire them? Ouyang said: "Jin Niang, it's not that we say one thing and do another, but many things take time and patience to do." Besides, although the emperor trusts me, I am not the emperor after all, and I don't listen to whatever the emperor says. Even the emperor can't act arbitrarily, and there are a lot of rules. ”

"There was also a distant relative who went to Jin Guo with us back then. He is not in good health, and he can't suffer much. My father subsidized him with a little food and money every month. After Yan Agu started the army, the life of the Jurchens became even more miserable. My dad couldn't take care of him. And guess what? Jin Niang smiled bitterly: "My distant relative made a fuss and snatched away a small bag of grain that we kept for the New Year." ”

Ouyang asked, "Do you mean that if we stop the preferential treatment for the Bian Clan, they will definitely be dissatisfied?" ”

: This chapter is purely Ouyang's point of view, and it doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong.